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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Splunk vs. TypeDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAnalytics Platform for Big DataTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aiwww.splunk.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunktypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOpenNMS GroupquasardbSplunk Inc.Vaticle
Initial release20082014200920032016
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.14.1, January 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIHTTP RESTgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and rolesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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